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Kcal 135 Fat 7.2g Carbs 15.6g
The Cadbury Snack range has already served up two pretty average offerings to the Chocolate Mission rating system; both the 'Snack Shortcake' and the 'Snack Raisin Cereal Bar' hardly went any way to setting any fires alight. Despite this I couldn't help myself when I saw this 'Snack Sandwich' - I have to cover all bases now don't I.
This 'Snack Sandwich' was described on-pack as a 'milk chocolate coated shortcake sandwich biscuit'. It came packaged in a foil wrapper that followed much the same design as the rest of the 'Snack' range. I have previously criticised the product appearance of the rest of the 'Snack' variants, though I actually liked the look of the 'Sandwich'. It had an appealing design with the Cadbury logo inscribed on the coating of the bar. The cross-section of the bar also had an impressive look with the layers being very defined in their appearance. The product had a pretty standard chocolaty aroma - it was neither strong nor overly enticing in its presence ... simply what you would expect from such a bar.
The milk chocolate comprised most of the constituents of the bar (69%). It didn't quite have the full flavoured Dairy Milk flavour, though it was still pleasant nonetheless. The milk chocolate had a strong sweet milky taste and provided a great coating to the bar. It wasn't quite the smooth texture of Dairy Milky and did clump as it melted; it had an ever so slight grainy feel in the mouth. The biscuit element had a nice buttery taste, which had just the slightest salty kick. Placed in the middle of the shortcake biscuit was a milk chocolate creme layer. Though it further added to the coating flavour, it affected the texture of the biscuit giving it a moist limp feel, which obviously wasn't preferable to the crunchy texture I was hoping for. Despite the vaguely disappointing textures, the combination of the milk chocolate and biscuit elements worked nicely to provide a pretty satisfying proposition considering its relatively small 26g size.
Overall desipte this again being nothing more than a pretty average product from Cadbury, its definitely the best in the 'Cadbury Snack' range I have tasted so far. The milk chocolate wasn't of the highest Cadbury quality, yet it was tasty enough and provided a pleasant coating to the shortcake biscuit centre. The bar could be very easily improved two ways: 1) removing the middle chocolate layer to avoid the biscuit getting moist and 2) making it double the size. I wouldn't say this should be a product you should massively go out of your way to trying, but if your looking for a cheap and quick biscuit based fix, you could do far worse.
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Backstreet Boys star A.J. Mclean convinced his bandmates to focus on marriage equality in their latest video in a nod to his beloved gay best friends.
The group's new promo for latest track In A World Like This celebrates relationships, and features a number of couples watching major events in recent history - including same-sex marriage.
McLean was adamant he wanted to support the gay community in its fight for marriage equality through the video.
He tells E! Online, "It stemmed from me personally. I have a lot of gay friends and two of my best friends have been together for almost 10 years. And living in California, it's been so f**ggin' frustrating to me that they could not get it right; they couldn't pass the bill. Then, literally, right after we dropped the video, they actually passed the bill in California, and I was just ecstatic. I just love the fact that people love each other, no matter if they're the same sex or not. I think everybody's equal, period."
In July (13), lawmakers at the Supreme Court paved the way for same-sex unions by striking down the controversial Defense of Marriage Act and overturning California's Proposition 8.


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Obama at Georgetown: Echoes of FDR
by The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In a major economic speech Tuesday at Georgetown University's Gaston Hall, President Barack Obama turned to the Sermon on the Mount to urge that America, in rebuilding its economy, "build our house upon a rock."
(Parenthetical aside: Is Obama aware that the Sermon on the Mount — Matthew 5-7 — is a radical document? There's a lot of "blessed are the merciful," "turn the other cheek," "love your enemies," "do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth" stuff in there.)
Warning that his speech would be "prose, not poetry," Obama offered a straightforward exegesis of how the economy got where it is, what's being done to fix it and what must be done to make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
Beyond that, he argued for systemic changes in corporate governance, banking regulation, the industrial base and health care economics to build, upon a rock, "a new vision of America's economic future that is far different from our troubled past."
This was Barack Obama as lecturer, not orator. But his Georgetown address may represent the broadest call for radical reform by any American leader since Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1932 campaign, called for adopting "new terms of the old social contract" among citizens, corporations and government.
"We must do so," FDR warned, "lest a rising tide of misery engendered by our common failure, engulf us."
Obama spoke in similar apocalyptic terms: "We have been called to govern in extraordinary times. And that requires an extraordinary sense of responsibility — to ourselves, to the men and women who sent us here, and to the many generations whose lives will be affected for good or for ill because of what we do here."
Like FDR, Obama must deal with the power of banks. Roosevelt kept them closed before allowing the healthy ones to reopen on his terms. Obama has chosen to proceed more cautiously, first working to prop them up and then subjecting them to "stress tests" to see which ones could survive if things get worse.
The results of those stress tests were at first going to be kept private, but the administration correctly decided this week to make the results public — after first leaking word that no banks would actually "fail." Nervous bankers worry that federal examiners may have a different view of their assets and liabilities than they do. And Obama is under pressure from the left to roll a few heads to indicate his seriousness.
Goldman Sachs, the big investment bank, this week sold $5 million in stock to begin repaying billions in government bailout help, thus getting out from under Treasury's scrutiny — and executive compensation limits. The government, however close its ties to Wall Street, should carefully examine Goldman's accounting; this last of the huge investment banks must not be allowed to become too big to fail.
Obama spoke to another problem FDR didn't have: "When a crisis hits, there's all too often a lurch from shock to trance, with everyone responding to the tempest of the moment until the furor has died away and the media coverage has moved on, instead of confronting the major challenges that will shape our future in a sustained and focused way."
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Good Samaritans rush to save 4-year-old who fell into Oregon river
LYONS, Ore. – A 4-year-old boy is safe after being swept away in the North Fork Santiam River on Sunday thanks to a group of strangers who jumped into action to save him.
The boy was standing at the water's edge in North Fork County Park with his father and siblings when at about 3 p.m. he ended up in the river, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.
Four good Samaritans immediately started working to save the child.
Jason McDade says he had no intentions of jumping into the water Sunday afternoon, until he saw the child bobbing in and out of the water.
"I see a kid floating on his back and I thought he was just swimming, enjoying the water and he was bobbing under the water and whatnot. I thought he was messing around, playing in the water," he said. "I look into the water and he's way down there and he wasn't moving or anything. My mom said, 'Go get him' and I took off my shirt and got in."
McDade said, at this point, the 4-year-old had been carried about 15 feet away from his family and was under water for at least 20 seconds before he got to him.
"My eyes were open so I can see where I was going because I was down there for quite a bit. I grabbed him by his arm and he was limp. I was like, 'Oh no,'" said McDade.
After McDada brought the boy's unconscious body to the surface, Christian Lozano took him to the shore. Then, Kelda Klukis stepped into action. She and Maryela Lozana started CPR on the boy. Klukis said her 17 years as a certified nursing assistant prepared her for moments like this, but she says it's still scary every single time.
"Your fight or flight kicks into gear and you gotta do what you gotta do," Klukis said. "Paramedics were called. It took almost three minutes for them to get there and that's critical time a life has."
During those critical minutes, it became a game of delegation among strangers; people wanting to help, but didn't know how.
"It all happened in like five minutes, it was real fast," said McDade. "I don't really know what to think. I just did what I thought was right."
Officials said the boy was breathing again when paramedics took the boy to the Santiam Hospital, then was later transported to a children's hospital in Portland.
The act of teamwork among strangers saved the 4-year old's life. A tragedy prevented this time became a lesson valued for the next.
"Adults and small children alike don't like wearing life jackets or be safe because of being made fun of, but in situations like this, it doesn't matter," said Klukis.
The boy wasn't wearing a life jacket, and the Marion County Sheriff's Office asks anyone who is near open water to put on a life vest.
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Taylor Swift will take the stage tonight (December 10) at the 2013 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. The "Red" singer will share the stage with Fall Out Boy on their "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark" — one of her favorite songs of 2013 — as well as a performance of "I Knew You Were Trouble."
In an interview with CBS, Swift revealed how she first came to be a part of this year's show.
"The idea for me to perform in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show actually came from one of my friends, Lily [Aldridge], who is one of the Angels," she said.


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Oregon sheriffs ask relief with inmate health care
SALEM — Oregon sheriffs are looking to the Legislature for relief from some of the cost of caring for inmates in the county jail.
As it stands today, people who get arrested and go to jail lose their health insurance benefits, and counties pick up the cost of care.
Sheriffs in many counties, especially in timber country, are struggling to keep deputies on patrol and say that one inmate with serious health problems can ruin a law enforcement budget, the Salem Statesman Journal reported.
"What kills us is when we get the $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 inmate," said Darrell Fuller, lobbyist for the Oregon State Sheriffs Association.
The sheriffs cite examples such as an inmate awaiting trial on a murder charge in Wasco County who had surgery for a brain tumor and then died of a heart attack. The bill: $300,000.
The Legislature has a bill to require private insurance carriers to continue paying for policyholders' care while they're in jail before trial, meaning they've been charged but not convicted. It's passed a House committee and now is in the joint budget committee.
Representatives of the health insurance industry argue that the government has a legal duty to care for people in its custody.
"It's my understanding that providing health care is a requirement in the Constitution for inmates," Health Net's Lisa Trussell said at a committee hearing.
Democratic Rep. Mitch Greenlick of Portland said dropping benefits for inmates who haven't stood trial amounts to discriminating against them on the basis that they can't make bail.
Sheriff Jason Myers said Marion County spends more than $2 million on inmate health care annually, 13 percent to 15 percent of the jail budget, with costs rising quickly.
"My budget isn't increasing. It's staying flat," he said. "As those costs go up, we have to look at other services like jail beds or patrol."
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Uniform Assessment System for New York
In March 2013, the Office of Health Insurance Programs, Division of Long Term Care began the implementation of the Uniform Assessment System for New York (UAS-NY). The overall goal of the UAS-NY is to utilize a comprehensive assessment system within eight Medicaid home and community-based long-term care services and programs. The transition to the UAS-NY is expected to be completed by March 2014.
Project Information and Updates
The availability of information to the appropriate providers will support care planning and service delivery for an individual.
The UAS-NY includes the following three assessment instruments:
- UAS-NY Community Assessment, a comprehensive assessment used for adults, age 18 and over, in home and community-based long-term care programs
- UAS-NY Pediatric Assessment for Ages 4 through 17
- UAS-NY Pediatric Assessment from Birth through Age 3
The UAS-NY contains reporting functionality for information on individuals assessed, as well as aggregate or agency-wide information, which will be immediately available to users during and upon completion of the assessment. The UAS-NY also includes an ad hoc reporting function that will enable users to create customized reports and to download information from the UAS-NY. This data can then be uploaded to an organization's local management system.
The UAS-NY includes an integrated training environment to help users learn about the UAS-NY assessment instruments and the application. The UAS-NY Training Environment is accessed through the Health Commerce System (HCS) and includes a range of online, self-paced courses and a wide of resources designed as an ongoing resource to promote the effective use of the UAS-NY.
The UAS-NY will be used in the following programs and plans: Adult Day Health Care, Assisted Living, Care at Home I and II, Managed Long Term Care, Long Term Home Health Care, Personal Care, Consumer Directed Home Care, Nursing Home Transition and Diversion Waiver, and Traumatic Brain Injury Waiver.
Questions can be directed to the UAS-NY Support Desk via email at email@example.com or by telephone at 518-408-1021.
Project Updates
- UAS-NY Statewide Implementation Plan Update (March 12, 2013) (PDF, 253KB)
- UAS-NY Transition Guide (May 14, 2013) (PDF, 905KB)
- What the Implementation Plan of the UAS-NY Means for Your Organization v2013-05-13 (PDF, 113KB)
- UAS-NY Reporting
- UAS-NY Program Assessments (PDF, 99KB)
- UAS-NY Project Update: May 17, 2012
- Uniform Assessment System for Long-Term Care in New York State: Phase I and II Progress
- Medicaid Redesign: Uniform Assessment System for Long-Term Care in New York State
Presentations and Webinars
- Understanding the UAS-NY – Demonstration for TBISCC October 2, 2014
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF, 629KB)
- 45-minute recorded (WMV, 84KB)
- UAS-NY Six-month Follow-up Webinar May 2, 2014
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF, 561 KB)
- UAS-NY Long Term Home Health Care Webinar September 20, 2013
- 17-minute recorded session (WMV, 17.8MB
- PowerPoint Presenation (PDF, 279KB)
- UAS-NY Assisted Living Program Webinar July 31, 2013
- UAS-NY Regional Webinar May 13, 2013
- UAS-NY Coordinator Webinar May 1, 2013
- Accessing the UAS-NY Webinar May 13, 2013
- UAS-NY Implementation - Implications for ALP Billing Webinar (March 6, 2013)
- UAS-NY Managed Long Term Care Plan Implementation Webinar February 12, 2013
- 35-minute Recorded Session (WMV, 36MB)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF, 272KB)
- UAS-NY Project Update Webinar January 29, 2013
- 45-minute Recorded Session (WMV, 50.4MB)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF, 278KB)
- UAS-NY Project Update Webinar December 14, 2012
- 50-minute Recorded Session (WMV, 58MB)
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF, 452KB)
- UAS-NY Update: December 14, 2011 Interested Parties Meeting
- UAS-NY Update: October 6, 2011 SPEED ROUNDS Presentation (PDF, 542KB)
UAS-NY Training Environment
- "Overview of the UAS-NY Community Assessment" video (WMV, 9.8MB)
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Big Problems for Artificial Intelligence
I compare the big problems studied in artificial intelligence and related fields in order to understand some major changes -- both internal and external -- recently suffered by AI. The comparison finds AI with few problems to call its own, and I identify some further major changes that may occur soon.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v9i1.659
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Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series examining a Kenai Watershed Forum study showing violations of state water quality standards on the Kenai River. Sunday's story will examine community response and a potential impairment designation for the river.
Boat traffic is stirring up enough sediment on the Kenai River to cause violations of state standards for drinking water, recreational use and the health of fish and wildlife, according to a study.
The three-year study, conducted by the Kenai Watershed Forum on contract with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, has yet to be formally released to the public and will not be included in the state's 2012 biennial listing of impaired water bodies.
The DEC project manager, Tim Stevens, said there is no formal timeline for the release of the watershed forum's study as he has yet to finish reviewing the data and it must go through several other agency members before being approved.
The problem
Turbidity is a measurement of the amount of light that is scattered as it passes through the water column. The more solids suspended in the water, the less light can penetrate and the cloudier the water becomes.
In photographs taken for the DEC, turbidity manifests as two muddied thick brown stripes along the banks of the Kenai River, which contrast with the normally glacial blue water.
In 2007 while doing a flyover on the river as part of its strategy to combat hydrocarbon problems, Stevens said Kenai Watershed Forum researchers noticed something wasn't quite right.
"We could see the river with the plumes on the side," he said. "... That didn't really look natural."
The watershed forum has data from 2007 when it began measuring for turbidity after a conversation director Robert Ruffner said he had with the Army Corps of Engineers.
While early results suggested violations of state water quality standards, there had not yet been a baseline of turbidity established on the river to compare measurements against, Ruffner said.
DEC's criteria for determining water quality impairments requires a measurement of the natural turbidity condition on a river before it will list it as impaired.
When measuring for turbidity, researchers measure the amount of light defracted in the water column rather than the amount of solids suspended in the river.
The state standards for turbidity are measured in NTUs, or nephelometric turbidity units, and Stevens said it's hard to pinpoint exactly how much mass in a water body is required to raise the NTUs turbidity level.
"It's a different parameter," Stevens said. "You can't do a mass balance and say you need two more pounds of soil in this water to come up with 5 NTUs. You can't do that. What makes the light scatter — turbidity — includes everything from bacteria, algae, sediment, dissolved organic compounds. Sticks floating on the water, they all affect turbidity measurements. So it's not just one thing."
The study
The DEC protects the Kenai River for turbidity in three categories: drinking, recreation, and fish and wildlife.
While Stevens said it was unlikely that anyone was drinking or swimming in the river, those designated uses are easier to violate than turbidity standards for fish and wildlife.
The turbidity levels considered safe for all three uses were exceeded for several hours in July throughout all three years of the study.
The EPA and the watershed forum cite a 2001 study that linked elevated turbidity levels with certain harmful effects on fish such as decreased feeding, reduced size. Higher turbidity can also increase water temperature and reduce the amount of photosynthesis in the water, according to the EPA.
Bruce King, a retired Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologist and member of the Kenai River Special Management Area advisory board, said discussions about harm to the Kenai River tend to be "fish-focused" rather than looking at the entirety of the food chain.
"One thing that probably hasn't been talked about too much in this situation ... is that the primary fish food species — invertebrate species — on the Kenai River are predominately filter feeders," King said. "As an aquatic biologist you might wonder how high turbidity impacts their food web."
When turbidity levels are high and light is diffused, aquatic plants that depend on photosynthesis to survive might suffer as well, he said.
According to DEC, many of Alaska's waters have naturally occurring turbidity.
Researchers at the watershed forum used data gathered on Mondays, when Alaska Department of Fish and Game regulations restrict motorized boat traffic, and at places in the river where boat traffic isn't heavy, to establish a natural condition.
Other rivers in the state like Caribou Creek in the Denali National Park are in violation of state turbidity standards based on previous mining in the area; the Nakwasina River in Sitka is impaired due to timber harvesting in the area according to DEC data.
Stevens said a water body cannot be in listed as in violation of state standards for turbidity due to naturally occurring conditions.
"We would only consider listing the river if we found that there was human input that was causing turbidity to be above the natural condition," Stevens said.
Clearing the water
The watershed forum has continued to monitor turbidity levels on the river, though its contract with the DEC ended in 2010.
During the course of its study for the DEC, the watershed forum documented more than 700 boats in the lower part of the river in one day.
Since then, the watershed forum has begun monitoring a portion of the river continuously to count boat wakes and try to establish a correlation between the number of boats and the number of hours the turbidity standards are exceeded, Ruffner said.
"It kind of gets at the carrying capacity," Ruffner said. "This is how many boats you can have on the river without it having an impact."
Researchers have also started gathering data closer to shore, as the study for the DEC gathered data 10-20 feet from the shoreline.
"We haven't finished doing the statistics on that yet ... but it's clearly more turbid closer to the shore," Ruffner said.
The DEC could use the results of the watershed forum study to classify the river in one or more "impaired" categories.
Ruffner and Stevens were involved with the river's former hydrocarbon impairment designation and said compelling river users to change their behavior was difficult without an official impairment designation.
"A lot of the time you have some resistance. People will say well, if its not impaired it's not a problem. They're less willing to work on a solution," Stevens said.
Ruffner and Stevens agreed that designating the river as impaired gave regulatory agencies more power to change boating regulations on the river, and motivated users to change their behavior.
"No one wants the river to be impaired, Ruffner said. "Everyone wants to see it not be impaired, I mean it's a world class resource, it should beat all water quality standards out there. I think the general public at-large will recognize that if the state says the water body is impaired, somebody should be doing something."
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A preliminary look at Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data for 2013 shows applications down 8% from the prior year, but loan denial share up by 13%.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council will not release the 2013 HMDA data until September. But a mortgage analytics firm has gotten access to what it claims represents about two-thirds of 2013 market volume, simply by asking lenders to send it their data.
Nearly 400 lenders, "including quite a few top lenders," responded to Mortgage TrueView's survey request, which went out to more than 1,000 firms after the March 1 deadline to submit to the FFIEC, said executive vice president Becky Walzak.
The Media, Pa.-based compliance and business intelligence firm likes big data analyses, said Walzak, and the annual HMDA report, with millions of data points from thousands of lenders, was an ideal database to tackle.
Data to aid lender compliance is the why the company did the survey, its first for HMDA. Mortgage TrueView had the 2010, 2011 and 2012 HMDA numbers, but was looking for fresher data.
Walzak points out a new plethora of servicing rules (nine in total) came down the pike as of Jan. 10 of this year, making it a requirement for servicers "to track and monitor data." But, she said, "People just weren't there yet."
With increased vigilance by regulators like the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, which promises to closely analyze the information, HMDA data may be able to help lenders predict if they are going to get one of those dreaded visits that tie up their conference rooms for weeks at a time.
If there are startling numbers in the HMDA data, "you need to be prepared to explain that to the CFPB," she said.
The CFPB has just announced a proposed rule that would require more mortgage data reporting from lenders. "The HMDA data do not provide adequate information about certain loan features that helped contribute to the mortgage crisis, such as adjustable-rate mortgages and non-amortizing loans," the Bureau noted.
Walzak would not disclose the names of specific lenders that responded to Mortgage TrueView's survey, but she did give an example of one potential regulatory risk, based on an aggregate of the five largest lenders that participated: Denials to African-American women averaged 35% for the five, she said.
Denials aren't the only reason a mortgage application goes unfunded. Apps can be withdrawn or be deemed incomplete, for example. This makes the "mortgage unfunded" category always considerably higher than the denial number. Other findings from the preliminary data include:
— An 8% year-over-year decline in mortgage applications.
— Origination rates dropped from 52% to 44%, a significant fall which would mean there were more unfunded applications than funded ones.
— Refinancing apps dropped from 66% to 59% of total apps, while purchase applications increased from 30% to 35%. That's broadly in line with anecdotal experience.
— Denial rates were up 13% YOY. Denials based on credit history jumped 16%, while denials based on collateral (such as refis) dropped by 19%.
— Denials for white applicants increased 24%, nearly the same as denials to non-whites, up 22%.
— Denials for Hispanics increased by 20%, while denials to non-Hispanics rose nearly as much, by 17%.
— Denials for men and women showed equality between the sexes, but nothing to be bragging about as both categories were up 24%.
One bright spot in the numbers was a big increase in percentage of loans purchased, up 59%. Walzak said that smaller lenders may have had fewer funding options, so they looked to correspondent lenders to buy their production.
An analysis of the industry's year-over-year origination volume was not a part of this report, but Walzak attributes the general downward originations trend to an increase in lender underwriting standards and a general tightening of credit.
Mortgage TrueView touts a free download of its survey results on its website.
Mark Fogarty, Editor at Large at National Mortgage News, brings more than 30 years of experience to his analyses of the mortgage market.


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Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as an "utterly irresistible heroine," Darlene O'Hara--the brilliant, hard-living, obsessive, and somewhat self-destructive detective introduced in Peter de Jonge's acclaimed crime fiction masterwork Shadows Still Remain--returns in Buried on Avenue B.
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James Patterson calls Darlene O'Hara "one of the freshest, hippest detective creations in many a year," and the New York Times has described Peter de Jonge's writing as "in the noirish, character-driven vein of Dennis Lehane or Michael Connelly." For fans of serious crime fiction, Peter de Jonge is a must-read, and Detective Darlene O'Hara is cop to be reckoned with.
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WASHINGTON D.C. – The federal government may require automakers to road test cars to ensure the accuracy of gas mileage claims, the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Tuesday.
Currently, the EPA road tests 10 to 15 percent of new vehicles every year, but the other 85% are tested by the car companies themselves, typically through use of computer modeling, wind tunnels and treadmill-like tests.
But those methods have come under scrutiny.
Korea's Hyundai and Kia lowered fuel economy estimates for some 2012 and 2013 models after the EPA found discrepancies between agency results and data submitted by the company.
Mileage claims were lowered by 1 or 2 miles per gallon on most cars, but the Kia Soul was adjusted by 6 miles per gallon.
And Ford last month agreed to make a "goodwill payment" to owners of 2013- and 2014-model year hybrid vehicles and most 2014 Fiestas after the EPA challenged its mileage claims.
The answer, the EPA says, is to require car makers to conduct road tests.
"Some automakers already do this, but we are establishing a regulatory requirement for all auto makers," Chris Grundler, director of the EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality, told the Wall Street Journal.
The proposal has not been formalized, and would have to go through a lengthy public comment and review period.
"At this early stage, it is premature for us to speculate on what form a proposal may take," the agency said in a statement Tuesday. "EPA will engage interested stakeholders proactively before making any proposal."
The EPA said the wind tunnel and other tests are important to get repeatable, reliable data. But it said it is considering requiring road tests.
The Obama administration has pushed through significant changes in auto mileage requirements for passenger cars and light trucks, including SUVs, pickups and minivans, as a way to reduce U.S. oil consumption.
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When Jason Todd Ready took to the Arizona desert armed with assault rifles and dressed in camouflage to look for illegal immigrants, some feared that the reputed neo-Nazi's rhetoric would turn to serious violence.
But police say blood was shed elsewhere: When Ready leveled his gun at four people and pulled the trigger, he was in a saguaro-lined neighborhood in the quiet middle-class Phoenix suburb of Gilbert where he lived with his girlfriend and her family.
Ready's girlfriend, 47-year-old Lisa Lynn Mederos, made a domestic-violence call to 911 asking the police to come help her on Wednesday. Seconds later, the operator heard gunshots and the line went dead.
When police arrived they found the bodies of Lisa Lynn Mederos and her daughter, 23-year-old Amber Nieve Mederos, inside the home. Dead outside were Ready and Amber's boyfriend, 24-year-old Jim Franklin Hiott.
Amber's 16-month-old daughter Lily was still alive inside but was pronounced dead soon after at a hospital.
Police say Ready killed them all before fatally turning the gun on himself, saying that all the evidence points to domestic violence.
Many considered Ready, a burly 39-year-old who went by "JT," to be the most high-profile neo-Nazi in Arizona. He led groups of heavily armed civilians into the desert to look for illegal immigrants as he repeatedly tried to win public office.
But Ready's beliefs and actions got so extreme, including statements that land mines would be a good way to stop border crossers, that the state's most conservative politicians distanced themselves from him.
Unwelcome among Republicans, Ready ran in January for sheriff as a Democrat. He continued to lead immigration patrols and posted Facebook updates, but there was little generally known suggesting his personal life was in turmoil.
But Gilbert police Sgt. Bill Balafas said that police responded to the Mederos home five times since 2009, most recently in February, when Lisa Mederos called police to report that Ready had choked her in August 2011.
Balafas said there was not enough evidence to make an arrest and that no charges were filed. It's unclear why Mederos would have waited six months to make the call.
The other times police responded to the home included a suicide threat by Amber Mederos in November 2009 and a suspicious activity report filed by Ready, Balafas said.
Inside the Mederos home police found six military-issue grenades, and their serial numbers will be traced, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent Tom Mangan said Thursday.
The grenades required a launcher, and Mangan said authorities did not find one.
The killings and Ready's involvement stunned members of his group, the U.S. Border Guard.
"Our sympathies go out to all of his family and friends during this time of unbelievable grief and pain," according to a statement posted on its website. "God bless you, J.T. You will be fiercely missed."
Harry Hughes, a regional director for the National Socialist Movement who went out on patrols with Ready, said the shooting was "completely out of character" for Ready.
"And I'm going to not speculate or make any conclusions. I'm going to let the investigation go take its course," Hughes said. "But I have a real hard time believing that JT Ready could actually shoot and kill a child."
Anti-hate groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center have for years tracked Ready. "JT Ready was a violent thug who typifies the very worst element in the American nativist movement," said the SPLC's Mark Potok.
According to an SPLC profile on its website, Ready was court-martialed twice in 1996 while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, the first time after being gone for eight days without permission.
The center said Ready was demoted to private after the absence, jailed for three months and that, later that year, was court-martialed again for conspiracy, assault and wrongful solicitation and advice. He was found guilty, spent six months in detention and was discharged for bad conduct, the center said.
The Marine Corps was trying to confirm the center's information.
Ready's ex-wife, Arline Lindgren, knew that he had started associating with white supremacist groups when they were married in the late 1990s, her brother, Adam Lindgren, said. The couple divorced in 2003.
Lindgren said he got into a few arguments with Ready but that they were never violent. He said Ready had a temper, but "not a violent temper, that I was aware of." He said he never saw Ready be violent toward anybody.
Ready was "very, very opinionated. He would argue with you until ... well, just keep arguing with you," he said.
Ready was a member of the Detroit-based National Socialist Movement, whose members promote white separatism, dress like Nazis and display swastikas. It believes only non-Jewish, white heterosexuals should be American citizens and that everyone who isn't white should leave the country "peacefully or by force."
Ready first tried to get into politics in 2004, when he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Arizona House. In 2006, he lost a run for Mesa city council but was later elected as a Republican precinct committeeman.
He didn't run for re-election in 2008 after three Republican congressmen wrote a letter to a GOP county chairman asking for his removal because of his neo-Nazi ties. They said Ready was sullying the party's image. They said he was a featured speaker at a neo-Nazi conference in Omaha, Neb., in September 2007 and distributed racist and anti-Semitic literature at a GOP meeting.
Trying to distance himself from the movement, Ready told The Arizona Republic in 2010 that he left the group. Potok said the move was "merely for cosmetic reasons."
Ready was also running his desert operations targeting illegal immigrants, one of which was featured on the National Socialist Movement's website as recently as January. Some of the photos on the website match ones posted to his Facebook page.
They include images of Ready and other members wearing head-to-toe camouflage gear, helmets and boots, and carrying high-powered guns during a weekend operation ending Jan. 29. The group claimed to help the U.S. Border Patrol apprehend one illegal immigrant.
"Some of us have our fingers on the triggers," Ready wrote in a post on a website for his group. "Soap box. Ballot Box. Ammo box. These were given to us by our founding fathers and mothers. We have just about depleted the first two options."
In January, Ready announced that he wanted to become sheriff in Pinal County. Ready listed himself as a Democrat, and most considered his chances of being elected laughable.
Former Arizona Rep. Russell Pearce, the chief architect of some of the state's tough legislation against illegal immigrants, was once Ready's political ally and friend, but said in a statement that he distanced himself after learning of his ties to white supremacists.
"At some point in time, darkness took his life over," he said.
Associated Press writers Terry Tang in Gilbert, Ariz., Michelle Price in Phoenix and Carson Walker in Maricopa, Ariz. contributed to this report.


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DETROIT -- Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham took personal an anonymous NFC scout's critique of defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh as a coddled underachiever, calling the comments "obnoxious" and out of line.
"Anybody that knows me, that's bad to say that I'm going to let a player get away with anything -- anything," Cunningham said Friday. "I don't do that and if there's one thing that I really get upset about is somebody challenges me on that. I've been doing this for a long time. I make guys play that don't want to play and you can take a poll around the league, a lot of guys would want to choke me to death but they made a lot of money, they had a lot of success and I'm not about ever to back off a player. Ever. Ever."
Cunningham said Lions coaches don't let Suh or anybody else "get away with anything," and he reaffirmed Lions coach Jim Schwartz's proclamation this week that Suh played one of the best games of his career in last Sunday's 34-24 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
"You can cross some things with me, the line, and say things, but you don't say that about anybody I deal with," Cunningham said. "It's against the rules as far as I'm concerned. And I'm not being anonymous by the way. I'm saying it and so if you can find out who it was, I'll go visit him and we'll find out."
Suh has been one of the most divisive players in the NFL since he entered the league as the No. 2 overall pick out of Nebraska three years ago.
He had 10 sacks and made all-pro as a rookie, but has battled his reputation as a dirty, unlikeable player.
Last month, an anonymous general manager told Pro Football Weekly that Suh belonged on the "all-hype team," and this week an unnamed scout told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Suh is "one example of a football culture that coddles elite players and does not force them to push themselves for fear that the player will tune you out."
"We complain at this level that finding leaders is a difficult task, but leadership is, as Eddie Robinson once said, fighting for the hearts and souls of men and getting them to believe in you," the scout told the paper. "For a player like Ray Lewis, he demands so much of himself and is willing to push himself, that when he confronts a teammate over work ethic, the player has no choice but to respect him.
"Players like Suh do not demand excellence of themselves because they believe they can be excellent just by walking on the field. These players will underachieve by comparison to expectations."


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New bridge includes new bike path
In the culmination of a 20+ year project, the new eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge opened up. And included on that new bridge was a separate bike and pedestrian lane. Those familiar with the area will quickly point out that this bridge only gets you half way across the bay, and that there is a second bridge that still lacks bicycle access that prevents a bike ride completely across. So for the short term at least this is a recreation trail only with no commute benefits. Keep reading →


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Halo 3: ODST lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant's invasion of New Mombasa. We had a chance to chat with Nathan Fillion, the actor who voiced Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck.
WP: How did you get involved with the Halo series of games? You had a small part in a prior Microsoft project, Jade Empire, before you started working with them on Halo 3. For Halo 3: ODST, you obviously had a much more expanded role, but how did you first get involved in the gaming scene?
NF: Well, Jade Empire and Halo were completely unrelated. I got involved with Jade Empire through some friends of mine in Canada, as a matter of fact. Then I was simply public about loving Halo, how we were on Halo 2 at the time, playing LAN parties at friends' houses. One of the Bungie guys — it was Marty O'Donnell who got a hold of me. He does the music and has composed the music for all the Halo games. He read it in an article somewhere and gave me a ring through my manager to see if I'd be interested, and I said, "Not only would I be interested, but I have a couple of buddies who were on Firefly" — they were fans of Firefly — "who would be pleased to join us as well." That's how Adam (Baldwin) and Alan (Tudyk) got involved.
WP: What was it like working with them again? Did you guys perform your lines together? Did you record them separately? How did that work?
NF: Most always, it's separate. They were kind enough to have Tricia (Helfer) and I together because we had a lot of stuff that relied a little bit more on chemistry, so they had us both in the same room. It makes it a lot easier. For the rest of the time, it was pretty much always apart. There was some stuff we did — I remember Alan was finishing off just as Tricia and I were coming in, so we got to watch the end of Alan's session, but as far as working together, just Tricia and I.
WP: Is that any more difficult when you're doing the voice acting and recording the lines by yourself without having another actor or actress to play off of, as you would on set?
NF: It certainly is different. It's not extremely difficult. I think we're all at a level — all these actors they have working for them at Bungie — where we can kind of handle the pressure of recording our voice.
WP: (laughs) So I guess it's safe to say that you're something of a Halo fan. Do you play a lot online?
NF: It's safe to say that, and yes, I do. I pretty much almost only play online. When the new games come out, I'll play the campaign through, but I pretty much only play online.
WP: With ODST, is it weird playing as yourself, hearing your own voice, and seeing your own face on the screen? Or is it really cool?
NF: It's both a little weird and really cool. When I'm playing the campaign with my friends — I was doing this just the other night — they commented on how weird it was. They don't know if it's me talking to them or if it's Buck talking to them, so what I did was, every time Buck said something, I'd repeat it, or I'd add something to it.
WP: When you're playing with your friends, do you trash-talk as much as Buck does in the game?
NF: No, I think I'm pretty relaxed when I play. I do a lot of shrieking like a little girl.
WP: (laughs) Were you always a fan of gaming, or was this something that you got into as you got older? Do you have a preference, Nintendo or Sega, back in the 16-bit days?
NF: We had a little gaming system called the Telstar. It had a wire coming out the back that split into two and had two little forks on the back of the wires. You had to screw the forks into these little posts on the back of your TV, and we played Pong. My neighbor had Intellivision, my friend had Atari, and another buddy of mine had ColecoVision, but we didn't have any of these superior, incredible, advanced video game platforms. My parents were teachers, and they would sometimes borrow computers from the school, when computers were just coming into fashion, when the new technology was just coming into schools. They'd sign one out and have it at home for the summer so we got to play it for the summer. I remember that Commodore 64 was completely useless. The Apple IIe, we got some games on the Apple IIe, and that was a lot of fun. Lode Runner, I remember, but I didn't get a proper game console until 1995 or 1996.
WP: What was your first proper game console, then?
NF: My first one was a PlayStation, and then I went to a Sega Dreamcast. I tried the PlayStation 2 for a little bit, and then I was told about this new Xbox, and I thought, "That's going to be the one. That's going to be the big machine." I was scheduled for a double hernia surgery, and I bought it the day before my surgery because I was going to be down for a few weeks. I bought a bunch of games that I'd researched, and while I was in the store, just off-hand, I said, "Oh, and give me that Halo game too." It was kind of an on-the-spot decision, and I never turned back. Halo all the way.
WP: When you got the call for Halo 3 and the part as Buck for ODST, did you see it more as a job or did your inner gamer come out, and you saw it as more of a chance to be in your favorite video game?
NF: Obviously I'm a fan of the game, and this has happened to me on a number of projects. I've been very, very fortunate in that I not only get to be a fan, but a participant. Rather than just a spectator enjoying it, I get a piece of the action. I get to watch its conception; I get to watch its birth. Bungie was so sweet to me. They sent me down to Seattle to come and play Halo 3: ODST with them. It was fantastic. I couldn't believe it. It was phenomenal. I got to watch how the thing was built. I got to see them developing their next game, which is Halo: Reach, and then there was this whole section of the building where nobody was allowed to go because that contained Bungie's super-secret project, but I'm not going to lie to you. I sneaked over there, and I saw some stuff that got me really, really riled up.
WP: Have you already started lobbying them to include Gunnery Sergeant Buck as a character in Reach?
NF: We've all kind of raised our eyebrows and said, "You know, it sure would be cool. I guess it would be fun."
WP: Let's talk about some of your other roles. You've managed a very varied career with some big-name productions in movies as well as TV, but you've also done some very cool independent Web series, such as Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and the PG Porn short on Spike. How do you pick your roles? Do you look for something that just looks like it will be a lot of fun? To be honest, everything that you do seems like you're having a lot of fun. Or are there some other criteria to help you decide on projects?
NF: You know, people are always under the impression that I get to pick what I want to do. "Now I'm going to do a video game." That doesn't quite happen. A job comes up, and I'm thrilled by it, I'm excited by it, and I try out for it just like everybody else does. I tell you what. I lost out all the time.
WP: How much of yourself do you bring to your characters? When you're playing a character, whether it's Buck in the game or Castle on your TV show, is that really all the character and all from the script, or is there a little bit of Nathan in each of your characters?
NF: They're kind enough on "Castle" — they hang out with me enough and I'm around all the time. A character starts to grow. You put in a little bit into the character; the character starts to put a little bit into you. It's a kind of amalgamation as far as Castle is concerned. It's a growing process.
For Halo, it's all kind of pre-done by the time I get there. I'm only there for a few short hours. At points, they would say, "We've got to do something for this. We just need a long list of things you would say if there were a grenade being thrown at you." At that point, you can improvise a bunch of different things and have some fun with it.
WP: One of the things that you mentioned earlier was that your parents were teachers. On "Castle," you play a writer. In real life, you co-founded Kids Need to Read a couple of years ago to help give books to children. How important were books to you when you were growing up, and how have things been going with Kids Need to Read?
NF: Things are going great with Kids Need to Read. From a bumbling little charity that we kind of conceived of and started, it's become an official 501(c)(3) thanks to a bunch of Browncoats, fans of Firefly and fans of PJ Haarsma. That thing is a full-blown charity; it's got a life of its own. We're getting a lot of books into a lot of kids' hands.
For me growing up, having books was like a ticket to ride. Even now, if I didn't have books, I wouldn't have half the imagination I have. Things light me on fire when I'm reading. I really enjoy being transported. I'm reading "World War Z" right now by Max Brooks. That book scared the crap out of me. I love it! I love that I can be at work, sitting on the set, I have 10 minutes before the next thing I've got to do, and for 10 minutes, I can escape. I love it, and I would love children to have that opportunity as well. You teach a kid to read, you let him read, you give him the experience, there's nothing he can't do.
WP: It's great what you can do with your imagination. With Castle as a character, you mention that you bring a little bit of yourself to it. Are we ever going to see Castle pick up a video game controller or mention his love for gaming?
NF: I wouldn't say never.
WP: With Kids Need to Read, you mentioned the Browncoats fan organization has helped out a lot with that. Has it ever surprised you how much sustained popularity "Firefly" has had?
NF: It constantly surprises me. It's brilliant. I've never done a project that has had such incredible legs, but that is a gift of Joss Whedon. He writes stories and characters that people relate to and gravitate to and want to spend more time with.
WP: Have you ever tossed around the idea of doing a Firefly video game with Alan, Adam and Joss?
NF: Mm-hmm, we've tossed that around.
WP: I take it that would be something that you'd be up for doing.
NF: Oh, yeah. Geez, I know nine people who would be up for doing that.
WP: (laughs) When you walk on to the Castle set for the day, what is it that you most look forward to as an actor? Is it just jumping into the role? Is it being able to do something new every day?
NF: For all the talented cast that we have — we have a really great group of cast — that's only about nine people. There are about 300 guys and women doing incredibly hard work every day before I get there and after I leave. They have even longer hours than I do. I enjoy their company. From the first season to the second season, we have about 97 percent of the original crew, and that kind of speaks to the family that we're building and the job that we're doing, that everybody who could come back did come back. It's a great group of people, and then on top of that, there's the work. I love finding real-life experience. I just love when there's something in the script that says to do this, but we find that when we're there with the set, when we're there with the other actors, we find a little slice of real life that just didn't exist, and we kind of breathe life into it. I like that.
WP: Here's more of a fun question for you. When you were growing up, did you ever expect that you'd be seen by women worldwide as a sex symbol?
NF: I always kind of hoped, but I never really expected it. I think that if you expect that kind of thing, it kind of negates the possibility of it ever happening. You can cross your fingers and wish for it, but if you start expecting it, you're not going to get it.
WP: Is it still possible for you to hang out with friends at a local bar, or do you get noticed every time you're on the street?
NF: I'm not a big fan of crowds, and anytime you mix alcohol and crowds, I get a little uncomfortable, but I'm at what I like to call "perfect famous." People recognize me and say nice things about my work, but I don't have any helicopters or paparazzi, which would upset me.
WP: Is there anything that we haven't talked about, whether it's about the Halo game, "Castle" or any of your other projects that you wanted to mention?
NF: Good question. I've got an independent film called "Trucker" coming out. "Castle," you mentioned. Dr. Horrible won an Emmy; we're all very proud. I think that's all we've got. I think we covered it.
WP: One last question. For the kids out there who are playing on Xbox Live, we won't ask you what your gamertag is, but if they happen to run into a match with someone who sounds suspiciously like you, how will they know they're playing against you?
NF: 'Cause they'll be face-down in the dirt. Boo-yah!
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Yesterday's revamp of Google+ leaves a hefty amount of white space on certain pages, a design change that's brought out the comedian in many users.
What would you do with the extra white space now gracing the pages of Google+?
That's a question many users of the social network have been answering with the usual sarcastic spin we always love to see on the Internet.
Launching yesterday, the latest face-lift for Google+ added a slew of changes, including a new left-side navigation bar and new ways to interact with the people in your circles.
But the one change that's put people into full mocking mode is the new and extra-sized white space. Click on any virtually any Google+ page, and a good 40 percent is nothing but blank space.
The white-space flap has led to its own trending topic on Google+, where an array of users have chimed in with suggestions on how to use that space most effectively.
One user found the extra white space in front of his monitor a good spot to place his beer. Another put his cat in front of it. And a third angled his monitor into portrait mode to get rid of the white space entirely.
Personally, I'm a fan of white space. I think most Web pages are way too cluttered, so a little breathing room isn't so bad. But in this case, the search giant may have gone a bit overboard. The extra space kind of makes the pages seem off-balance, like they're going to tip over.
The obvious questions are why Google designed the pages this way and whether the company plans to use that extra real estate for other content down the road. Google didn't immediately answer CNET's request for comment.
A Google rep told CNET that some of the changes were indeed created for future needs.
"So while it may look clutter-free now, the idea is to give us space that will allow us to quickly grow," the rep said. "With today's foundational changes we can move even faster–toward a simpler, more beautiful Google."
I have hunch, though, that the company may have planned the whole "extra white space" conspiracy. It quickly turned into a trending topic and has generated lots of buzz. What better publicity could you ask for?
Lance Whitney wears a few different technology hats–journalist, Web developer, and software trainer. He's a contributing editor for Microsoft TechNetMagazine and writes for other computer publications and Web sites. Lance is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and he is not an employee of CNET.
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It's almost that time of year again; where your Facebook or Twitter newsfeed is full of misty-eyed walks down memory lane, all taking a look back at lets face it, what was a pretty special 2012.
Of course we had perhaps the greatest end to a Premier League season; Manchester City's stunning late rally against QPR meant the Citizens claimed their first league title for 44 years ahead of rivals Manchester United.
Then there was Euro 2012, in which Spain, one of the greatest international teams of all time, became the first side to ever win three consecutive major international tournaments.
Then of course there is Lionel Messi, a one man record breaker intent on scoring goals until there is no other man's name left in the history books. If his record-breaking 73 goals last season wasn't enough, he's now set a new mark for most goals in a single year. Not bad for a 25-year-old.
Here at GMF we decided to get the ball rolling ahead of the new year by taking a look back at the best goals scored in the Premier League this year.
As 2013 gets closer and closer, keep your eye out for more countdowns from what was, most people will agree, one of the best years in terms of action on the pitch, for some time. Remember to leave your comments on what you think was the best goal of 2012 below.
Pappis Demba Cisse v Chelsea, May 2012
A surprising omission from the FIFA Puskas Goal of the Year award, Cisse's unbelievable goal against Chelsea not only defied all logic but was ultimately the final blow to the Blues hopes of finishing in the top four and securing Champions League football. That was unless they could do the unthinkable and go on and be crowned Kings of Europe……..
A seemingly innocuous throw-in was chested down by Shola Ameobi into the path of Cisse, whose half-volley from 30 yards swerved and dipped past Petr Cech. Utterly brilliant.
Jermain Defoe v West Ham, November 2012
Jermain Defoe has been in outstanding form this season and showed the very best he has to offer with his brilliant goal against West Ham.
Defore is known as a great goal scorer rather than a scorer of great goals, but against West Ham last month he showed a glimpse of his game that is rarely seen.
Picking the ball up on the half-way line, the England striker held off his man before bounding forward, then shifted the ball to his right-hand side and lashing it past Jussi Jääskeläinen.
Zoltan Gera v Liverpool, August
Come the first day of any new season, pretty much everyone is excited for what lies in store. Liverpool and West Brom certainly had that feeling as they stepped out on to the pitch at the Hawthorns – but the feeling wasn't to last too long for the away side.
As if a demoralising 3-0 defeat in Brendan Rodgers' first league game in charge of the Reds wasn't enough, Zoltan Gera ensured the match would be talked about for some time with a sublime goal.
A half-cleared corner fell to the Baggies midfielder outside the box. Gera made it all look so easy as he brought the ball down with his chest and slammed a half-volley right into the top corner, past Pepe Reina.
Peter Crouch v Manchester City, March
Was it on purpose? Was it an accident? Does it even matter? Peter Crouch's audacious goal against Manchester City last season is more a contender for greatest goal of all time than best of the year.
You must have seen this one by now. The perfect control, the swivel and volley, the dipping shot that left Joe Hart grasping at thin air. Sit back and joy.
Hatem Ben Arfa v Bolton, April
Hatem Ben Arfa appears to be trying his best to wrap up the goal of the year award for himself after a string of fine strikes in 2012.
The Frenchman has a knack for spectacular goals but he is unlikely to better his goal against Bolton last season (even if he did try against Fulham last night).
Ben Arfa had the ball on a piece of string as he took on most of the Bolton team, before showing a burst of pace to split the defence and stroke the ball home. His first touch is divine.
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Finishing Move: FM8 Nouveau 80′s sound library
15 Sep
Finishing Move, the production collaboration between Trifonic's Brian Trifon and Brian Lee White, has just released a synth preset library for FM8 via Samplephonics.
In the video below, Brian (Trifon) demos some of the presets from the Nouveau 80′s library, which can be adapted for electronic music, film and game scores, or modern 80s-inspired music like Chvrches and M83.
You can read more about the library and download it here.


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Recent comments
Forum topic: youtube video missing in media section
hi looks like its depends on browser, in chromium i can see video (thumbnail is bad), but in firefox there i only screenshots.
i use linux;)
No problem, thanks for releasing the game.
I will post another delta next release.
Forum topic: Linux version available only for Steam
You are right, I have requested an update to fix the GOG link, remove the Desura link and add the Humble Store.
Forum topic: Thanks for the update
Thanks for the frequently feedback.
We are almost done with the next update, hope you'll enjoy.
Forum topic: youtube video missing in media section
The thumbnail does not show up, but theres a play button which works fine
The team welcomes outside help like this.
If anyone wants to make an 'official' chaosesque website with forum etc, feel free.
None in the team really wants to do the work for that (would rather code and work on game media).
Thankyou again for making the delta.
Forum topic: Desired Features
Note: ChaosEsque is loyal to Darkplaces and will not change engines
Any desired features will be ported over or added
Currently used DP source is a fork of it from 2013 (where there was a stable version that worked well on all platforms including intel gfx),
with some possible security updates etc from git repo hand patched in, and the ability to switch out textures without being in single player mode if a password is property set in a certain cvar.
You can find it on the ISO in darkplacesblablabla.zip
Only the Linux binaries are compiled from this. The Windows and Mac are still that version but without additions or patches, because all devs use linux, and none use mac or windows. (Anyone know how to build new versions for those platforms, is there a how to?)
They are compiled as xonotic release. (./all compile -r) Compiling as debug gives major slowdowns (as would be expected).
Any expansions/additions would be made to that version, and it is desired that new code be clean (be put in seperate file so can
be easily patched into newer DPs if DP wants the new additions).
Any version of DP can be used with the game so far however.
The idea would be to add a cvar "use extentions" or something like that, and only if the server admin set that would the higher-entity count protocal be used, thus backwards compatibility would be kept.
These are just ideas, none of the team has had much experience working in the engine code, we've only done small things.
If anyone does have experience poking around there, and wants to contribute, we're open to it.
Also the version of DP we use still works with MOD type sound formats, that was removed from DP.
We'll be keeping that aswell. (It was noted by LH that said code could do with a security audit)
nobody on Tue, 04/28/2015
thank you for doing this.


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Next phase of PAH e-records goes live Monday
PUNXSUTAWNEY — The main goal of Punxsutawney Area Hospital's transition to electronic medical records (EMR): Patient safety, improving the quality of patient care and staying competitive in a quickly-changing health care field.
Thanks to hospital staff implementing the transition behind the scenes, patients really shouldn't notice any difference in services, aside from perhaps a few more questions from their doctors or nurses. And that staff will now have a computer to input their information that they collect into the system.
Monday, the remaining two-thirds of Phase II of the transition the patient care system (PCS) and the bedside medication verification (BMV) module (or bar-scanning medication given to the patient with an electronic medication administration record) go live.
The operating room module (ORM, or documentation of the surgical patient for the short procedure unit, operating room and post-anesthesia care unit staff), went live June 14.
With EMR, basically, a patient's entire chart is transitioning from a paper system (charts, records, all written by hand by hospital staff) to a computerized system with which staff can collect patient information one time and make it available to any department serving a particular client.
"It allows us to share information across all hospital departments
easily, and access information almost instantly," said Dawne Davis, RN, the team leader overseeing the transition for the PCS module.
Not only will transitioning to EMR increase accessibility and speed, but it will also make great strides in patient safety, especially in terms of medication and dosage, and reducing medical errors.
The first portion of the change implementing the MEDITECH EMR system for revenue cycle applications, order management, and emergency department management with computer provider order entry was it was implemented July 1, 2010 and is the basis of the system.
BMV implements devices to scan a patient's ID bracelet that detail his or her medication via computer verification, as well as the proper dosages and alerts.
"It will reduce any sort of medication error that could exist," said Norman Fry, RN, BSN, team leader for the ORM module.
What can the patient expect?
Fry said the June 14 implementation went smoothly, but patients could possibly expect to spend a few more minutes answering more in-depth questions, as hospital staff will seek more data to form a better-rounded chart that will be entered into the system.
Some of the questions may be asked to meet federal meaningful use standards, but on the whole, the more detailed information could shorten the patient's next visit, because his or her information will be well-documented in the system for whichever hospital staff member is providing services.
The hospital's transition to EMR is a $2.5 million investment, most of which will be reimbursed through government grant funding.
"The federal government has made significant financial incentives available for hospitals to implement EMRs in an attempt to improve patient safety and control health care costs," hospital CEO Dan Blough said. "However, facilities not well on the journey to achieving federal 'meaningful use' standards supporting electronic medical records by 2014 will see reductions in the federal reimbursement monies."
Phases I and II of the EMR transition have challenged all departments at the hospital to work together in a team atmosphere, Davis said, which has entailed some departments working with others for the very first time.
Fry said that the transition is helping to keep Punxsutawney Area Hospital competitive. That's also valuable when recruiting new physicians to the hospital, who can see that PAH is not years behind technological advances in health care.
"It shows that the Punxsutawney hospital is not letting technology pass us by," he said. "We're moving forward, and this system could match or surpass any hospitals in the area."
Davis also said the investment into the EMR system is not only by the administration, but also the hospital's board of directors, which sees the importance of moving forward and staying competitive.
"It's giving us a great opportunity overall, and it's pretty well accepted," she said. "We've got to keep competitive."